Matthew Cohen, MSW Archive
Matters of national security are important, but an extramarital affair that “might” have been a matter of national security just doesn’t seem to justify the coverage it is getting. I believe that the national security issue is just an excuse …
The “fiscal cliff” has embedded itself in the American collective consciousness. So what is the fiscal cliff? About.com says: ‘“Fiscal cliff” is the popular shorthand term used to describe the conundrum that the U.S. government will face at the end …
Wired has a great video on the election results.
The waves carry us endlessly, each day we crash to the shore, each morning we wake from sleep to find ourselves a drift on the vast ocean. We are always brought home. The traps are intricate. My hat goes off to all …
We The People, the official website for the Obama administration has been the target with petitions for State secession. Actually there were more States then Texas and Louisiana but there is little doubt that all the states are “red”. None of the petitions mentioned the …
It’s a story as old as The Bible. Tensions are mounting again in the Middle East. Syrian violence is spilling into the Syrian-Israeli border. The Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu issued a clear statement on the new border aggression. “Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said …
I don’t have answers. The solutions to the world’s problems won’t come from a grand vision, but from a plodding commitment to goodness. I remember reading a quote in a Zen Buddhist book that said something along the line of, …
Yes, I was skeptical just as you are! Nate Silver is a blogger for the NYT/FiveThirtyEight section. Apparently he the political world has been critical of the statistical methods used to predict the election. The criticism was not levied by obscure organizations, they include MSNBC, the LA …
America is a mess. I don’t know how anyone could come away from the election not believing so. I’m having a hard time deciding if this is still one nation united. The country is as far away from a middle ground as …
Nothing brings out the ugliness of a person than election day. I never understood the anger, as if ones political beliefs were a part of the body. Voting intimidation is as old as America. A judge today has stopped people …
